“To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.”
Barbara W. Tuchman book A Distant Mirror
Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 459
Maxim 38
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.”
Barbara W. Tuchman book A Distant Mirror
Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 459
“The elements of good trading are cutting losses, cutting losses, and cutting losses.”
Ed Seykota (1946) American commodities trader
Source: Jenks, Philip, (Editor) 500 of the Most Witty, Acerbic and Erudite Things Ever Said About Money, Harriman House (December 2002), ISBN 1897597223 Read it here http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1897597223&id=lERXBvyeeQ0C&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=seykota&sig=K97S8hGKxQmB6w7x79enj9tEGw4
“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.”
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
"Sincerity", p. 153.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.”
Marilynne Robinson book Housekeeping
Source: Housekeeping
“The loss of consciousness for me was never any great loss.”
Samuel Beckett book Malone Dies
Malone Dies (1951)
“All is loss that comes between us and Christ.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 95
“The best and greatest winning is a true friend; and the greatest loss is the loss of time.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression